Obj. ID: 56178
Memorials Memorial to Rozwadów and Nisko victims of the Holocaust in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery, Israel
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Rozwadów, Poland and Nisko, Poland, and surrounding communities who perished in the Holocaust.
Description:
The monument is located in the Southeastern Alley of the cemetery, along with dozens of other Holocaust memorials built by Landsmannschaft organizations, survivors, and relatives. The monument consists of a tall, light-colored stone slab standing on a stone base that holds a small stone plaque. The monument is surrounded by four short stone pillars connected by a metal chain. On the right rear pillar, there is a small structure intended for memorial candles. The monument bears Hebrew inscriptions honoring the community's memory. The community name is emphasized through the use of a larger font size. One of the inscriptions indicates that the monument contains the ashes of the Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
Inscription:
On the slab, in Hebrew:
לזכר
קדושי קהילת
רוזבדוב
ניסקו והסביבה
הי"ד
עליה לבניכם ספרו
ובניהם לבניהם
ובניהם לדור אחר
Translation:
Memorial to the martyrs of the Jewish communities of Rozwadów/Nisko and the surrounding area/May God avenge their blood. Tell your children about it/and let their children tell their children/and their children another generation [Joel 1:3].
On the small stone plaque, in Hebrew:
העצמות האלה
כל בית ישראל המה
Translation:
The bones are the whole house of Israel [Ezekiel 37:11]
Commissioned by:
Association of Jews from Rozwadów and Nisko, Poland (Landsmannschaft, Irgun Yotsei ha-makom).
sub-set tree: 
Width of the slab: 100 cm
Depth of the slab: 20 cm
Width of the base: 140 cm
Height of the base: 31 cm
Depth of the base: 90 cm
"Execution of Jews in Rozwadówka,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, http://www.yahadinunum.orgwww.yahadmap.org/en/#village/rozwadowka-lublin-poland.816.
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Nahman Blumental (ed.), Yizkor Book for Rozwadów and the Surrounding Area (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, Association of Jews from Rozwadów in Israel, Bene Moshe Horowitz Society in America, and Jews from Rozwadów in Belgium, 1968)., https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/953c39f0-42b2-0133-bd28-00505686a51c?_gl=1*mtfgl9*_gcl_au*OTczNjQ0Njk2LjE3MzgyMzQzMDg. (accessed March 4, 2025)
For the photograph of the memorial done in the 1980s or the 1990s, see, "ID 39188"
The Archive of Ghetto Fighters' House, https://infocenters.co.il/gfh/multimedia/Photos/Idea/36603.jpg.